Introduction I have previously blogged on how a simple Ansible playbook can be used to automate the cloning of Oracle database(s) on Linux, utilising the Pure Storage Ansible modules and storage snapshots. If you're interested my Ansible code for Oracle Rapid Clone Automation (ORCA) can be found up on GitHub or if you prefer to... The post Oracle Rapid Clone Automation (ORCA) for Windows appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more

Overview In this Blog I am going to provide a walthrough of my fully automated Oracle 18 Express Edition (XE) build on a Vagrant managed Oracle Linux VirtualBox virtual machine using Ansible and the Pure Storage FlashArray Ansible collection. I use vagrant up to start my Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine with the latest Oracle Linux... The post Fully automated Oracle 18XE build with Ansible appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more

Introduction In a recent post I shared how to create an educational environment to help develop Ansible skills, and provide way of gaining hands-on experience with Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade Ansible modules. In this post I am going to show how to use the the Ansible URI module to use some of the advanced... The post How to Query, Sort and Filter FlashArray REST API results using Ansible appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more

Introduction If you have been following my blog for a few years you may have already read some of my blogs on Ansible, or used seen some demos or even pulled some Ansible code from my GitHub repo I was recently asked How can I learn more about Ansible, and the how can I start... The post How to get started automating Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade tasks with Ansible appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more

Fully automated Oracle #APEX build using #Oracle18xe, #ORDS and Apache Tomcat @ansible @virtualbox @oracleace The post Fully automated Vagrant build for Oracle APEX using Oracle18xe, ORDS and Apache Tomcat appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more

Introduction In a previous post I introduced ORCA for Windows and shared a Video of it in use, in this post we will spend a bit of time looking at some of the techniques I used to implement it.. Working with Ansible Templates One of the Ansible features I find myself using time and time... The post Automating Oracle Database Cloning on Windows with Ansible appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more

Background I spend most of my time working with Linux but occasionally I come across Oracle on Windows, so I thought it's about time that I tried my hand at using Ansible on Windows. Ansible on Windows You can not currently run Ansible on Windows, but you can manage Windows servers from a Linux or... The post Getting started with Ansible and Windows appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more

One of the Purity 6.0 features I have most eagerly been awaiting is the ability to tag Pure volumes and snapshots. Volume tagging provides a great way of providing additional database and application metadata to FlashArray Volumes to provide application and database aware reporting. In this Blog post I am going to demonstrate how we... The post Oracle Database Volume Tagging with Purity 6.0 appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more

In previous Blogs I have shared how you can use Ansible to manage Pure Storage FlashArray volumes and snapshots. In this Blog I will show how you can also use Ansible to access Pure Storage Pure1 to get fleet information such as version, model, volume, snapshots, pods, file systems, network interfaces, and metrics. Accessing Pure1... The post Accessing Pure Storage Pure1 with Ansible appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more

Latest @Ansible demo showing multiple @Oracle #12c databases being refreshed from a simple playbook using @Ansible #AWX @OracleACE The post Oracle Database Automation with Ansible AWX appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog ..read more